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Shipping help

Let’s say I’m selling hats and a person buys five hats how do I charge more for shipping five hats because currently whenever somebody buys five my items it’s only charge them shipping for one item for example today i sold item andthe shipping is only five dollars. it’s going to cost over $50 in shipping because he bought over 10 of those items

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Add a shipping charge for each additional item when you are setting up the listing.

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When setting a Multi-Quantity listing, and using a fixed rate for shipping, you have the option to add a cost for each additional purchase.

 

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Is this for the surge protectors? Have you checked into the Large Flat Rate Game Box?   It's about 24" x 12" x 3"

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How do I get to that page? I can’t see those choices

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Make sure you are using the Advance Listing form.  When you create a listing there's an option to switch to the advance form, click that and you'll have far more control over the content of your listing.

 

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My Issue is I’m not seeing this option at all. I can’t find this button 

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@soviet_surplus wrote:

today i sold item andthe shipping is only five dollars. it’s going to cost over $50 in shipping because he bought over 10 of those items


These power strips? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Tripp-Lite-6-Outlet-Surge-Protector-Power-Strip-6ft-Cord-Industrial-Metal/2... No way it would cost anywhere near $50 to ship a box of 10 of them.

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If this happened today, I would contact ebay because the shipping amount charged wasn't enough. From what I can tell when customers buy multiples from my listing, eBay's system tries to auto calculate shipping based on the weight I set up for 1 item. For example, if your listing says shipping one hat weighs 5 oz and someone buys two hats from the listing, eBay's system is set up to calculate shipping of 2 hats as a 10 oz package. This is almost always too much money, because it is factoring in the actual packaging material multiple times. I simply refund buyers the difference.  

 

If you aren't doing shipping by weight and size, then I'm not sure how the system calculates shipping on a purchase of more than 1. 

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The OP has that listing set at $4.99 for the first item + $4.50 for each additional = $45.49

 

But I believe using priority by weight/zone would be much cheaper.  Not sure if any of the priority flat rate boxes would accommodate 10 of those.

disneyshopper
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There is no "button".  It sounds like you are using the Quick Listing Tool.  You need to switch to the Advance listing form which has more choices.

 

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disneyshopper
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There is a big difference between hats and power strips. Power strips you can just use any box, if you can't use a USPS Priority box whatever fits will work. Hats would (if not just trucker hats) need a hat box and would most likely have to be shipped individually. 

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Figured it out thanks! 

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